About Facet-Streams:

Facet-Streams is a prototype application for the Microsoft Surface tabletop computer. The application enables a group of users (e.g. a family) to simultaneously search hotels in the hotel data of HolidayCheck and to agree on a holiday destination. Users can use multitouch and glass tokens to enter their individual preferences into the application.

“Facet-Streams” was designed and implemented by Hans-Christian Jetter, Jens Gerken und Michael Zöllner at the Human-Computer Interaction Group of Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer at the University of Konstanz in cooperation with Natasa Milic-Frayling of the Integrated Systems Group of Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Quote from the mail of the “Best of CHI” committee:

Congratulations!  On behalf of SIGCHI and the CHI 2011 Committee, we would like to formally notify you that your accepted Paper has received an “Honorable Mention” award.  The CHI 2011 Papers and Notes Committee selected only the top 5% of Papers and Notes submissions to receive the “Honorable Mention” designation.  Quite an achievement. [...] Congratulations to you all and thank you for advancing the field of Human-Computer Interaction! [...]

Now that’s a really nice way to say thank you!

In the light of this award, we are happy that our submissions to CHI 2011 were even more successful than we already knew…

We have just received exciting news from CHI 2011. Our “Facet-Streams” paper has been selected as one of the top 5% of papers and notes at CHI 2011 and has received an “honorable mention” award. Let me use this opportunity to thank our collaborators and all involved students again for their part in this great outcome. We feel proud and honored to be highlighted so prominently at CHI 2011!

We are proud to announce that our group has been very successful in submissions to this year’s CHI conference: At CHI 2011 in Vancouver BC in May 2011, we will present: two full papers, one entry to the student research competition, and two workshop papers to the CHI workshop on Distributed User Interfaces (DUI 2011).

The scope of our contributions has been particularly broad this year, ranging from Facet-Streams (a tabletop system for collaborative search designed and developed together with Microsoft Research Cambridge) or API usability evaluation with concept maps to cognitive studies about the effect of visual grids on memory. One of the accepted papers for DUI is the result of a cooperation with our colleagues from the Media Interaction Lab at Hagenberg, Austria. Some of the papers and videos are already available on our publications page.

If you would like to meet the authors, all of them (Jens Gerken, Hans-Christian Jetter, Svenja Leifert, Harald Reiterer, Michael Zöllner) will be attending CHI.

See you in Vancouver!